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Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When the body of a mysterious Englishman is found floating in New Orleans New Basin Canal, Benjamin January uncovers a link to another unsolved murder in Paris nine years before. Now he must unravel the earlier murder in order to solve this second killing. At stake are the lives of his wife, son and unborn child.
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[[2000] 2000]
Language
English
Description
Benjamin January, a musician in New Orleans, returns to the slavery of Mon Triomphe, Simon Fourchet's upriver sugar plantation, to unravel secrets and sins which have manifested in a mysterious fire, a poisoning, a murder, and voodoo curse marks.
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[[2001] 2001]
Language
English
Description
In 1835 New Orleans, Benjamin January, a free man of color, becomes caught up in a deadly plot when he rescues opera impresario Lorenzo Belaggio, who has brought a production of the opera "Othello" to town, from a violent attack.
4) Wet grave
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[[2002] 2002]
Language
English
Description
It's 1835 and the relentless glare of the late July sun has slowed New Orleans to a standstill. When Hesione LeGros--once a corsair's jeweled mistress, now a raddled hag--is found slashed to death in a shanty on the fringe of New Orleans's most lawless quarter, there are few to care. But one of them is Benjamin January, musician and teacher. He well recalls her blazing ebony beauty when she appeared, exquisitely gowned and handy with a stiletto, at...
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
New Orleans, 1840. Benjamin January has little use for politicians, but when a giant rally is planned to stir up support for the Whig presidential candidate, he finds himself intrigued. Trouble is brewing though, both political and romantic, and soon January finds himself investigating a murder ... with an innocent woman's life on the line.
6) Cold bayou
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"New Orleans, 1839. Despite his misgivings, Benjamin January has agreed to play the piano at the wedding of wealthy French Creole landowner Veryl St-Chinian. All is not well, for the marriage of 67-year-old, profoundly infatuated Uncle Veryl to an 18-year-old Irish tavern-slut spells potential disaster for everyone in the inter-married Viellard and St-Chinian clans. But the old man is determined to marry Miss Ellie Trask, and nothing will stand in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
''A cursed statue . . . A haunted house . . . A seemingly supernatural death . . . The unexpected arrival of a friend from his past plunges musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January into an old, unsolved case in this historical mystery set in New Orleans "Outstanding . . . fastidious period detail, and a consistently surprising investigation" Publishers Weekly Starred Review. December 1840. Surgeon turned piano-player Benjamin January...
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"April, 1840. Benjamin January knows no black person in their right mind would willingly go to the Republic of Texas but when his former pupil Selina Bellinger is kidnapped and enslaved, he has no choice. Once there he is saved from being hanged by Valentina Taggart, wife of the wealthy landowner of Rancho Perdition. After Valentina is accused of the murder of her husband, she in turn calls on Benjamin for help. To do so, he must abandon the safe...
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A historical mystery in 1830s New Orleans whose protagonist is a free man of color. Dr. Benjamin January, back in America after 15 years in Paris where he became a surgeon, goes to the help of a woman. In revenge, he is framed by her enemies for murder and must clear his name. A look at the complicated race relations of the period in New Orleans.
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, the last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloe Viellard ask for his help tracking down a missing girl in distant New York, he can't say no. Three weeks ago, seventeen-year-old Eve Russell boarded a steam-boat and never got off it. Mrs Russell is adamant Eve's been kidnapped, but how could someone remove a teenager from...
11) Crimson angel
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Jefferson Vitrack - the white half-brother of Benjamin January's wife - turns up on January's doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he has discovered a clue to the whereabouts of the family's lost treasure, January has no hesitation about refusing to help look for it. For the treasure lies in Haiti, the island that was once France's most profitable colony - until the blood-chilling repression practiced there by the whites upon their slaves...
12) Dead water
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[[2004] 2004]
Language
English
Description
In turbulent nineteenth-century New Orleans, free man of color Benjamin January finds himself on a perilous steamboat ride that becomes an inescapable journey of death and murder.
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